Ingalls Shipbuilding Wins $604 Million US Navy Guided Missile Destroyer Contract

Huntington Ingalls Industries announced today that its Ingalls Shipbuilding division has won a $604.3 million modification to fund construction of the Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) Aegis guided missile destroyer DDG 121 contract for the US Navy.

The ship is the third of five DDG 51 destroyers the company was awarded in June 2013.

"The DDG 51 program has been the backbone of Ingalls Shipbuilding for the past three decades," said DDG 51 Program Manager George Nungesser. "We now have a hot production line in the shipyard where we can maintain our highly skilled shipbuilding crews in the same working areas for each ship. This will allow increased learning and provide the most efficient way to reduce cost and schedule while building quality ships for the United States Navy."

The five-ship contract, part of a multi-year procurement in the DDG 51 program, allows Ingalls to build ships more efficiently by buying bulk material and moving the skilled workforce from ship to ship. With the contract, Ingalls will be building DDGs over the next decade.

Ingalls has delivered 28 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers to the Navy. Destroyers currently under construction at Ingalls are John Finn (DDG 113), Ralph Johnson (DDG 114), Paul Ignatius (DDG 117) and Delbert D. Black (DDG 119).